Escape of Brownian particles in a bistable sawtooth potential driven by correlated white noises

摘要

An exact analytic expression of the relative escape rate (RER) for Brownian particles in a bistable sawtooth potential driven by correlated white noises is obtained. It is found that the RER vs. R (the multiplicative to the additive noise intensities ratio) exhibits a suppression platform for positive correlation, whereas the resonant activation and suppression platform appear successively for negative correlation. The mechanism of the present phenomena is explained. The effects of a nonlinear potential on the RER are studied. We have numerically calculated the RER of the system under a parabolic potential and a quartic potential and have compared the differences of the RER in the case of the linear potential and the one of the nonlinear potential.